Chart of the day: How Warren Buffett beat the S&P 500 last year

Warren Buffett’s investment vehicle, Berkshire Hathaway, performed more than twice as well as America’s S&P 500 index last year. Mischa Frankl-Duval explains how.

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Warren Buffett: shifted Berkshire Hathaway's focus from equities to company acquisitions

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Mischa graduated from New College, Oxford in 2014 with a BA in English Language and Literature. He joined MoneyWeek as an editor in 2014, and has worked on many of MoneyWeek’s financial newsletters. He also writes for MoneyWeek magazine and MoneyWeek.com.